262 The Roman Villa at Box. 
covered the whole area at about 24 feet below the present surface. 
A fine ashlar wall, forming the north side of this mill-race, crossed 
chamber C. diagonally; but the corresponding side on the south 
was not found. 
Outside the buildings was found a portion of a stone drain, 
having a 12 inch wide channel exactly similar to that beneath the 
eastern wing of the villa. It followed the outside walls of chambers 
F. and E., and then turned ai right angles, but it could not be 
traced further owing to modern work above. 
Notes on Objects found. 
By Rev. IX. H. Gopparp. 
The list of objects found on the site is a singularly meagre one, 
a condition of things accounted for by the fact that the ground 
had been often disturbed and turned over before. 
Worked Stone. In addition to the altar, carved figure, and capital, 
already described, a fragment of another capital of similar but not 
identical mouldings; a single drum of a freestone column 1ft. 4in. 
in height, with a diameter of 124in., found previously by Mr. Hardy, 
and shown in the photo of “ Buttresses of added Building;” a 
fragment of moulding; what appears to have been a small capital 
greatly weathered and worn;! a finial ornament (?) in the same 
condition [a precisely similar piece of stone is in the Silchester 
collection at Reading]; and a large piece of a grooved millstone of 
Old Red Sandstone (not a quern), the material of which is pro- 
curable near Bath, were found. 
Marble. A single fragment, about 2in. square and in. thick, of 
a carefully-sawn slab of marble, which has been polished one side, 
possibly for the panelling of a wall. It is green and white in 
colour, with black crystals interspersed. Except for these black 

1 This capital and finial are now at Devizes Museum. 

